Civil Rights Laws
This act ended discrimination in the workplace
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do
Brown vs. Board of Education was the law case that overturned this previous law case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
lawyer in brown vs board case
Thurgood Marshall
To challenge the federal government to enforce rulings against discrimination in interstate transport
main goal of the Freedom Riders
Truman ordered desegregation of the US armed forces. He did this after the NAACP was created but before Brown vs board of education.
The U.S. president who ordered the desegregation of the military, and in what year?
The primary purpose of this act was so African Americans could exercise their 15th amendment rights.
Primary purpose of the Voting Act
Thurgood Marshall
The lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education
Ceasar Chavez
organizing boycotts
methods the United Farm Workers use to have success
This group gained their Us citizenship on this year
American Indians gain U.S. citizenship in 1924
Changed the impact it had on women’s participation in organized sports in high school and college.
Importance of Title IX
guarantees all citizens equal protections under the law
the 14th Amendment
Civil right activist who was arrested from refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white man.
Rosa Parks
protest led by the United Farm Workers
Grape Boycott
Enforce segregation
Jim Crow laws designed to do
It expanded equal protection rights.
Importance of Hernandez v. Texas?
Gave African American men the right to vote
the 15th Amendment
wrote the Feminine Mystic
Betty Friedan
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas when 9 black students tried to integrate into central high school
the Little Rock Nine, and what the U.S. government did to protect them
This person advocated for farmworkers
Dolores Huerta advocated for which group
No poll tax-it eliminates the suppression of political participation by states.
24th Amendment
expanding equal protetion rights
What Hernandez v. Texas accomplish
Political leaders who were committed to the idea of racial segregation
George Wallace and Orval Faubus
They fought for more opportunities and rights for minority groups. this group was for violence because they felt that non violence was going to take too long to bring about change.
what the Black Panthers supported and they were for violence.
The goals of this program is to end poverty and abolish inequality.
goals of President Lyndon B Johnson Great Society program